ICALEPCS 2015October 17 - 23, 2015 Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre

Workshops

Conference Workshops will be held on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th October, prior to the conference beginning.

ICALEPCS Workshops

** Please note change to the HDF5 and Data Formats workshops - it has now been split into two separate half day events with change to cost.  See below for further details.

**Please note that the "Timing" workshop & "Free Software Tools for Hardware Development" workshop have moved from Saturday to Sunday.  Schedule is below.

1. HDF5 Tutorial:

The HDF group will provide training on HDF5 basics including tools, performance tuning and new features. This tutorial is being given by Elena Pourmal, Director of Technical Operations, The HDF Group.

If you are attending this tutorial, please help tune it to address the topics and issues most important to you by completing a short survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2695K6C

For more information about this workshop, please contact Elena Pourmal - epourmal@hdfgroup.org

 

1a. HDF5 and Data Formats Workshop: Click here for Workshop Agenda

This workshop will provide an introduction to the HDF library and the HDF5 Group, and include discussion on using HDF5 for storage of data and metadata. It will include a presentation about the current and future directions of the HDF5 library by a representative from the HDF Group. Other topics include:

- The merits (and otherwise) of various ontologies built on top of HDF5 (e.g. NeXus)
- How to use HDF5 in demanding applications (e.g. high speed detectors)
- Potential future developments relevant to our community and how we can work to influence them.

For more information about this workshop, please contact Nick Rees - nick.rees@diamond.ac.uk

2. Motion Control Applications in Large Facilities: Click here for Workshop Agenda

Following the success of previous workshops on motion control, this year's workshop is intended to cover a broad range of motion control subjects pertaining to:

- Experiences in motion control at the different sites: radiation damage to encoders, in house development versus industrial products, system performance validation including reliability, obsolescence management
- Technical solutions in software and in low level hardware: kinematic transforms, complex trajectories, protection including collision avoidance, multi-axes and multi controller synchronization, embedded and/or hosted motion features
- Motion control challenges: submicron positioning, continuous and synchronous motion control and data detector's acquisition
- Motion Control and Sample Environment Automation: How should motion control fit into the increasing automation demands of high throughput beamlines

For more information about this workshop, please contact Brian Nutter – brian.nutter@diamond.ac.uk

3. Timing:

Meeting for users of the Micro Research Finland timing system to share experiences and future needs.
We will be having a presentation on the latest products from MRF — including new VME hardware and active delay drift compensation.  We also are soliciting your contributions on interesting things you are doing with your timing system.  If you have a paper in the Timing and Synchronization track, this would be an excellent opportunity to give a more technical presentation about your poster or your talk.

Additional tutorial:
This year we are also considering a “beginners tutorial” session which will probably be held Tuesday morning after the keynote talk.
The idea would be to cover the basic steps for getting started such as:
- Initializing the event generator
- Setting up a simple sequence
- Initializing the event receiver
- Setting up a pulser
We are thinking 3 x 20-minute (or so) sessions.  One for EPICS, one for TANGO, and one for Real-Time Linux.
We would like to know:
a) if you would be interested in attending one or more of these sessions, and b) would you be willing to present one or more of these sessions?
You can send presentations to Eric Björklund bjo@lanl.gov.  

For more information about this workshop, please contact Eric Bjorklund - bjorklund@lanl.gov


4. Free Software Tools for Hardware Development:

Sharing hardware designs is difficult because the market for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools is fragmented and mostly dominated by proprietary tools with incompatible formats. The workshop explores the current landscape of free software tools for EDA, with an emphasis on KiCad, an application for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design. We will design a complete PCB from scratch using KiCad. If time allows and there is enough interest, we will also look at tools for Hardware Description Language (HDL) simulation and SPICE or SPICE-like analog simulation of circuits.

For more information about this workshop, click here or please contact Javier Serrano Javier.Serrano@cern.ch, or Tomasz Wlostowski Tomasz.Wlostowski@cern.ch  

5. EPICS Satellite Meeting:

The (Southern Hemisphere) Spring 2015 EPICS collaboration meeting provides an opportunity for developers and managers from the various different sites to come together and discuss their work in progress and make plans for the future. They give a chance to see what is being done at other laboratories, and to review the specifications for new tools or enhancements to existing ones in order to maximize their usefulness to the whole community and avoid duplication of effort.

For more information about this workshop, please contact Juan Guzman - juan.guzman@csiro.au 

6. Control System Cyber-Security:

This is the 5th workshop on this popular topic. The focus will be to continue sharing and discussing counter-measures, review configuration and development procedures for secure control systems, and review the progress since the last workshop.  Please see the following link for more information: https://indico.cern.ch/event/348695

For more information about this workshop, please contact Stefan Lueders - stefan.lueders@cern.ch

7. Tango:

TANGO is a toolkit for building modern distributed control systems. The TANGO workshop will present the TANGO control system toolkit. The basics of TANGO and how to write a device server and client will be introduced. Then attendees will learn how to build graphical user interfaces using Taurus. An overview will be given of all the bindings to tools and languages which are available for TANGO. The second half of the workshop will be dedicated to the historical archiving system solutions, how to install and use them. The last session will be dedicated to advanced features in TANGO. The day will conclude with a question and answer discussion session.

For more information about this workshop, click here or please contact  Andy Gotz – andy.gotz@esrf.fr & Jean-Michel Chaize – chaise@esrf.fr

Workshops Summary

Workshop Name

Day

Length of Workshop

Cost

1. HDF5 Tutorial Saturday 17th Oct  Half Day (Morning) $75.00
1a. HDF5 and Data Formats Workshop Saturday 17th Oct Half Day (Afternon) $75.00
2. Motion Control Applications in Large Facilities Saturday 17th Oct Full Day $150.00
3. Timing Sunday 18th Oct Half Day (Morning) $75.00
4. Free Software Tools for Hardware Development Sunday 18th Oct Half Day (Afternoon) $75.00
5. EPICS Satellite Meeting Sunday 18th Oct Full Day $150.00
6. Control System Cyber-Security Sunday 18th Oct Full Day $150.00
7. Tango Sunday 18th Oct Full Day $150.00